[NEWS] Ripley’s First Episode Has Speed, Solid Acting and Storyline; Gathers Praise

This post combines three news articles to provide a comprehensive post on the first episode of Ripley.

Ripley Lee Dahae, Kim Seungwoo, Park Yoochun’s First Meeting; The Beginning of the Lie

The two men who loved Zhang Miri who behind a bright smile has a hidden sadness, Zhang Myunghyun and Song Yoohyun. The first broadcast began with a narration by the two men, saying that “I really loved her.”

Zhang Miri experienced the life of a bottomless pit thanks to her Japanese step parents. In order to escape this she worked as a hostess in a alcohol-serving facility and gathered money with all her might. She makes up her mind to go back to Korea and find her mother and pushes through to escape. Although she succeeded in returning to Korea after paying off the gambling debt of her stepfather, because she did not have any economic comfort she had to live in a Goshiwon (T/N: typically small and austere facility for students and others looking to save money) while working part time in a restaurant. Zhang Miri who arrives in Korea after many incidents tears up due to many emotions inside of her.

At the time that Zhang Miri visited the Goshiwon, Song Yoohyun was unpacking. He is the successor to Japan’s Mondo Resort and has returned from Japan. Despite this he wished to experience the life of the common man and volunteered to live in a Goshiwon.

On this day Song Yoohyun spilled a plate of food on Zhang Miri’s clothes and the two’s meeting began. Unlike Zhang Miri who showed off her displeasure fully on her face Song Yoohyun fell for her upon first sight, and expressed his liking enthusiastically.

However, Zhang Miri did not even respond to his words and disappeared into her room. Even after this she acted cold to Song Yoohyun who said bright hellos to her.

After this she puts in applications to companies in order to live a proper life but her situation that does not have parents, siblings, or a house and her educational background of only having graduated from high school only gives her insults and makes her turn spiteful.

At this time, she comes into the attention of Zhang Myunghwan for the one reason that she knows how to use a strong regional dialect of Japan and comes to have being hired in the hotel in front of her eyes. However, Miri thinks that this time also her educational background of having graduated only from high school may be reason that she is not hired. Therefore she lets out by chance the lie that she is a graduate of Tokyo University, which is Japan’s premiere university. She is then chosen by Myunghwan.

In doing so Miri not only met the two men who will change her life from now on, but also fell into the pit of lies that will eventually lead to her destruction, and announced the proceeding of the fateful drama.

The viewers praised: “I could not take my eyes off due to the speed of the story,” “One can feel that the storyline is solid,” and “Talented actors such as Lee Dahae, Park Yoochun Kim Seungwoo, and Kang Hyejung maximizes the fun of the drama.”

Source: TVReport, TVReport, TVDaily
Translation Credit: JYJ3